Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!helios!inetg1!edp130!dbgwab From: dbgwab@edp130edp.arco.com (Bill Bailey) Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix Subject: Re: Sockets in /dev: what are they? how to recreate them? Message-ID: <1991Jun7.171655.8567@Arco.COM> Date: 7 Jun 91 17:16:55 GMT References: Sender: dbgwab@edp130 (Bill Bailey) Organization: ARCO Oil and Gas - EDP Lines: 9 You Mention that you are backing up "/" to a spare disk with "apio" or something similar... Why don't you just use "dump" ?????? I us it to dump an entire server system by piping the output from dump to comnpress. I then tar the files together and ftp them to the IBM mainframe... but that's another story. -- Bill Bailey Voice : (214) 754-6779